During events, or as part of communities, we often find it hard to fully commit, be present and connect with the people we gathered with. Bobbilee Hartman solves this problem with her Lodged Out retreats in most exciting ways.

This year, Malmö’s The Conference set aside the hot topics in technology to give space to the boring conversations we need to have about things like trust, truth, fake realities and real fictions. It was a really good tech conference that felt nothing like a tech conference.

We attended Fifteen Seconds in Austria to discover what makes it the hidden gem of business festivals, why people meet there every year, and how this event can inspire you to design better shared experiences.